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Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. (bsky.app)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/games
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Excellent feature. One of the first things I check anyways when buying early access games is when the last news post was.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Early access titles should have an “expire” time. Either get to market, or don’t early access if you can’t in time.

[–] Nindelofocho 68 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I feel like all that will happen is games will just release to 1.0 as “finished” when they clearly arent. It also may encourage rushing a game out thats a buggy mess.

Ive known some games to be very rough in early access that become absolutely gems a couple years later in development.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So be it, but at some point they need to shit or get off the pot, and way too many games are just staying early access.

[–] Nindelofocho 2 points 2 weeks ago

I definitely agree. Part of me wants to say the few gems that come out of it make it worth it

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